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Smaug would be a stupid model in the big box. They should have Spiders and trees from Mirkwood. Then they can release smaug in a separate box.

Stay on topic, chaps.

The Hive Guard picture was an incredibly early tease, followed by eerie silence.

 brassangel wrote:
The Hive Guard picture was an incredibly early tease, followed by eerie silence.

Definitely!

I've been checking around Faeit, Warseer, Dakkadakka and tyranid forums every day in hope that something else is rumoured but so far nothing..

 brassangel wrote:
The Hive Guard picture was an incredibly early tease, followed by eerie silence.

Like with any Tyranid invasion, its the calm before the storm

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:

 brassangel wrote:
The Hive Guard picture was an incredibly early tease, followed by eerie silence.

Like with any Tyranid invasion, its the calm before the storm

Yeah, the storm of my trying to get money so I can afford this stuff. I'll sell all six of my kidneys if I have to.

 McNinja wrote:
, the storm of my trying to get money so I can afford this stuff. I'll sell all six of my kidneys if I have to.

6 kidneys? Are you a Space Marine?

 RandyMcStab wrote:

 McNinja wrote:
, the storm of my trying to get money so I can afford this stuff. I'll sell all six of my kidneys if I have to.

6 kidneys? Are you a Space Marine?

That would suck. GW will then sue you for being born.

I'll be selling kidneys too.

Just not my own...

Flogger wrote:

 brassangel wrote:
The Hive Guard picture was an incredibly early tease, followed by eerie silence.

Definitely!

I've been checking around Faeit, Warseer, Dakkadakka and tyranid forums every day in hope that something else is rumoured but so far nothing..

Just GW experimenting with different "rumor leak" timing schemes...

T

timd wrote:

Flogger wrote:

 brassangel wrote:
The Hive Guard picture was an incredibly early tease, followed by eerie silence.

Definitely!

I've been checking around Faeit, Warseer, Dakkadakka and tyranid forums every day in hope that something else is rumoured but so far nothing..

Just GW experimenting with different "rumor leak" timing schemes...

T

I wouldn't be surprised. They aren't completely daft, though it probably took a team of analysts and sales figures to convince the higher ups to do anything like this.

I hope the December 7th release is correct. My friend and I are ready to record "We hiss you a merry Nidmas." to celebrate the joint festivities. He can have his first game with the new book around xmas.

That would be awesome.

7th of december must be correct because that means I get to play the new nids last weekend of january when I'm in Denmark at the ETC qualifications

 McNinja wrote:

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:

 brassangel wrote:
The Hive Guard picture was an incredibly early tease, followed by eerie silence.

Like with any Tyranid invasion, its the calm before the storm

Yeah, the storm of my trying to get money so I can afford this stuff. I'll sell all six of my kidneys if I have to.

Why the rush? Its not going to disappear and you don't have to buy it all at once.

 Flogger wrote:

 brassangel wrote:
The Hive Guard picture was an incredibly early tease, followed by eerie silence.

Definitely!
I've been checking around Faeit, Warseer, Dakkadakka and tyranid forums every day in hope that something else is rumoured but so far nothing..

Good luck checking Warseer for leaked pics

Not matter how many times they do it, I still think they look silly with "guns" attached to their arm. You'd think they could come up with some cooler looking bugs. Pretty disappointed in those hiveguard...

But.. that's what nids do? They morph and grow whatever weapon they are supposed to have.. it's not like they manufacture bolters for people to carry around.. they *are* the weapon.

 Kirasu wrote:
But.. that's what nids do? They morph and grow whatever weapon they are supposed to have.. it's not like they manufacture bolters for people to carry around.. they *are* the weapon.

That is not current philosophy:
Currently, Tyranids just grab other life forms looking and working like a rifle which is a silly concept. Started with current Codex and a painting scheme giving Tyranid and its weapon different colours.

From a lot of the pictures I have seen of the miniatures, they at least look like they have grown together with the weapon. I haven't read the codex, so I thought that they actually grew the weapons.

Do they not bond with their weapons? The weapon has it's own basic intelligence, but is symbiotic with the tryanid that uses it.

I don't think Tyranids can de-bond from their weapons, can they?

I don't think tyranids can let go of their guns for the most part. On the hive guard, the gun is it's right arm and it's holding it steady with the left. IIRC the different guns have different levels of intelligence. For example, devourers are just the housing for the devourer worm colony living inside it. I don't think the gun itself is a separate animal. The tyranid creature carrying it (gant, warrior, whichever) generates a bio-electric shock which forces some of the worms out of the colony causing it to 'fire'.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Do they not bond with their weapons? The weapon has it's own basic intelligence, but is symbiotic with the tryanid that uses it.

I don't think Tyranids can de-bond from their weapons, can they?

There is a small story where a Tyranid Prime changes weapons between to battles. Although it is never show the process.

My headcanon is that Tyranids can de-bond from the weapon and give birth to a new one.

Small story with a Prime? Where's that from? I can't remember ever reading anything about them besides the 5 lines of fluff they got in the codex.

 Redemption wrote:
Small story with a Prime? Where's that from? I can't remember ever reading anything about them besides the 5 lines of fluff they got in the codex.

In one of the many anthologies, I don't remember which one.

IIRC, Jes G. did a whole design explanation on this back after the 3rd ed codex was released. They basically they went for a middle ground between having the weapons a completely separate organism and having them simply be part of the Tyranid genotype. And so we have the symbiote approach, which I happen to like.

 Tyran wrote:

 Redemption wrote:
Small story with a Prime? Where's that from? I can't remember ever reading anything about them besides the 5 lines of fluff they got in the codex.

In one of the many anthologies, I don't remember which one.

If Tyranids were braying in that story, it might be by C.S.Goto and therefore rubbish.

i believe that nids should be only CC with jsut minor shooting (raveners thorax spines style)

Tyran wrote:

Sikamikanic0 wrote:
i believe that nids should be only CC with jsut minor shooting (raveners thorax spines style)

no

yes


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I like that Tyranids don't have big guns, but they need to be able to get into CC despite all the guns on the other side.

Odd_Socks wrote:

Tyran wrote:

Sikamikanic0 wrote:
i believe that nids should be only CC with jsut minor shooting (raveners thorax spines style)

no

yes


Automatically Appended Next Post:
I like that Tyranids don't have big guns, but they need to be able to get into CC despite all the guns on the other side.

In the fluff the Tyranids, while usually prefer CC and short range weaponry, are completely capable of bringing dakka to the fight.
Why should the Hivemind limit itself to only CC?